A Safe Zone for Women

Articles Creative Resistance Middle East Syria Damascus Planning Ressources Power to the People FREE-Syria Jasmine Tent Project security sexual violence Syria violence waging nonviolence Women´s Rights Language:   English Author:   Rafif Jouejati

Women in Syria are joining to build a safer place to live. The Jasmine Tent Project  is being planed by FREE-Syria which is conducting fundraising to build actual tends where women and girls can live safely. This project comes in a time when civil resistance in Syria is changing. People are looking for creative forms of civil disobedience so that they can be noticed but not be a target – many have died just by waiting together in bread lines. This new initiative is a way to provide for women from all cultures, ethnicities, religions or political backgrounds. They will be protected from various forms of repression and violence.

Assad regime’s has been responsible for great loss, hunger and particularly sexual torture. Jasmine Tents’s developers plan to open shortly in Atmeh Camp in Idlib and then go to other countries with despotic regimes. However the concept behind this project extends to all of society, so that women can have normal lives without fear of abuse.

Read more on Waging Non Violence

Related Posts via Taxonomies

• Ahmad Zainu: How to create a feeling of unity
• Spain – Activists Fight for their Housing Rights
• Struggling to Organize a New Syria
• Why Being Human Matters for the People of Gaza and the World
• Black power challenges a white Christmas in the Netherlands
• Non-Violent Activist Razan Zaitouneh and her Team Kidnapped in Syria
• “Nonviolent Peaceforce” for International Awareness
• Tools of Protest: Disobedient Objects
• 28.07.2014: Resist the Eviction of the Pizzeria Anarchia
• Syrian Activist Ahmed Fights With Ping Pong Balls